Nuts cut coronary heart disease risk
...s-Etherton notes that dietary guidance on fats has changed in recent years from removing or drastically restricting fats to substituting and replacing them with heart healthy alternatives. For example, she says, "you can cut back a little on margarine and add a small amount of slivered almonds on green bean...Proteins in African HIV strains interact differently with drugs
...in another substance (the substrate) without being changed itself. The catalytic action of the protease is vital in viral maturation, which has made it a key target for drug development. Measurements of the catalytic factors were taken in the absence and in the presence of indinavir, ritonavir, saquinavir...Device liberates quadriplegic from ventilator
...ion device, which is powered by batteries that are changed weekly, has made his daily life easier. When Conlan is off the ventilator and on the stimulation device, he speaks normally, while his lungs are exhaling air. This gives him much more time to speak and a more normal and expressive speech pattern. Th...Krauss book explores universe from oxygen atom's perspective
...plains how discoveries over the past 30 years have changed our vision of nature, and have led us to understan...le vision for the future. Krauss' work profoundly changed the way he now looks at the world. He hopes the book does the same for his readers. "When I look at......vents by changing carbon monoxide pressures, which changed the reaction across the substrate. Meanwhile, they captured all this activity using a camera-like device called a PEEM (photoemission electron microscope). High-energy light from the microscope causes photoelectrons to be ejected from the surface spe...Trans fatty acid consumption may increase risk for type 2 diabetes
...e processing technology for fats and oils in foods changed during the time frame of the study, and could affect the estimations of the amount of trans fatty acids in the various foods. They also caution against extrapolating the results from this large population study to individuals, especially since trans ...International scientists probe unsolved puzzles of the Earth and beyond at "Earth System Processes"
...that the dynamical state of the inner Solar System changed abruptly about 65 million years ago, significantly...duced pressure at deep-sea vents, and consequently changed ocean chemistry. This may develop into another new means of testing the Snowball hypothesis. Matthew...Climate sensitivity may be higher than many think, researchers say
...determine whether the suns irradiance has actually changed during the past 150 years," Andronova said. "Another way would be to consider the net radiative forcing of all the anthropogenic aerosols, not just the sulfate aerosol."...DNA evidence calls Irish potato famine theory into question
...n to immigrate to America and other countries, and changed the course of European and American history. It turns out they were wrong. A new study by scientists at North Carolina State University, published in the June 7 issue of the journal Nature , finds that the strain of the pathogen blamed for the...Software to make testing of new generic drugs more thorough
...fertilizer," she said. "If you changed the formula, you could use our software to see if a particular function changed." Herderick wrote the software in the FORTRAN computer language for a Windows PC, but said it would work just...Polluted clouds might bring patchy cooling in a warming world
...hows how the reflectivity, or albedo, of clouds is changed when various factors are introduced. The evidence raises questions about how clouds affect global climate change, but it doesn't answer them, Charlson said. In their formation, "clean" clouds reach a point at which droplets pass a certain size thresh...Virus found to carry antibiotic against E. coli
...tain pathogen, and even better, it could easily be changed to overcome resistance." Phages which are not the same type of viruses that infect humans, animals and plants are basically dormant bundles of DNA or RNA in protein coats until they come into contact with bacteria, Bernhardt said. They then go into a......(large vascular plants with deep, extensive roots) changed the world for ever, according to Dr Robert Berner (Yale University). He presents his findings at Earth Systems Processes, a multidisciplinary meeting in Edinburgh, UK, hosted jointly by the Geological Society of London (GSL) and the Geological Socie...World land database charts a troubling course
...ustrial revolution. "Knowing exactly what has changed and by how much, what are the historical patterns of change, and what are the consequences of change, are now key questions that we have to answer," says Ramankutty. The situation will worsen, he says, as world population continues to soar and the p...Warmer climate linked to earlier frog calling
...er, while two (green frog, American toad) have not changed their earliest calling dates. Climate warming will probably have little impact on most of the frogs studied because Ithaca is in the middle of their breeding ranges. However, climate warming could affect species at the edges of their ranges. For exa...Excessive fishing prompted coastal ecosystems to collapse, but wise management now will help
...a result, "fantastic" coasts around the world have changed radically -- and for the worse, scientists say. Evidence of what humans have lost and what might be done to restore at least part of the oceans bounty is the subject of a ground-breaking paper appearing in the July 27 issue of the journal Science. Am...Scientists examine the seas our ancestors fished to better understand today's changing oceans
...rred over time, ecosystem structures and functions changed in response to overfishing. While few species like the Stellers sea cow of the North Pacific and the sea mink of the Gulf of Maine were fished to extinction, many became ecologically extinct like the sea otter, which did not make a comeback from inte...CWRU receives $2.2 million for Center for Computational Genomics
...ell as characterizing how biological functions are changed by genetic mutations, metabolic perturbations, and pharmacologic treatments. The interdisciplinary nature of the program is demonstrated by the center having equal co-directors: Yoh-Han Pao, the George S. Dively Distinguished Professor Emeritus ...Plant diseases plague world trade
...reevaluate their policies and see what needs to be changed and updated. Wheat, one of the worlds most important food crops, is a case in point. Once traded freely between countries, an outbreak in 1973 of a disease known as dwarf bunts of winter wheat pretty much put an end to open trade. And even long afte......ng of pregnant stumpies to see how their breathing changed due to their lungs becoming increasingly squashed. "What I found was that their ability to breathe properly became less the further they went into the pregnancy, and in the last six to eight weeks before birth both breathing frequency and the volume ...